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Molten core of the earth
Magma
Atmosphere
The covering of air that surrounds our planet is the
Sandstone, shale, and limestone
Sedimentary
Desert Soil - content
Dry sandy soil
Name an example of fossil fuels.
Coal, oil or natural gas
Atmosphere, biosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere
Rivers that "feed" other rivers
Tributaries
Continental drift
Layer of earth humans, animals and plants live on
The Crust
Name of theory plate movement
Plate Tectonics
Subduction
Process by which the relatively thin and dense oceanic crust slides down and under the more massive continental crust.
Mineral used in gunpowder
Sulfur
Created Fjords.
Glaciation
Minerals
Solid crystals that occur naturally, have a definite chemical composition and are extracted from rock.
Process of moving sediment by wind, moving water, or ice
Wearing away rocks by natural means
weathering
Most powerful force of erosion in nature
Water
As the flood waters receded the earth's crust was exposed. Creatures had been dispersed their by the waters and the flood waters left them behind.
Theory that the forces that shaped the earth as we now see it operated in the past at the same rate as of today.
Uniformitarianism
Cataclysm
Violent upheaval or change in the Earths crust
According to Genesis 1:28 what are humans to do with Earth?
Take care of the world and have dominion over all living things.
Layers of the Earth - there are 7
Atmosphere, Crust, Lithosphere, Upper Mantle, Mantle, Outer Core, and Inner Core
Difference between plains, plateaus and mountains.
Mountains stand above the surrounding landscape and are distinguished from hills in that hills are generally smaller than mountains. Plains are wide areas of flat land. Preferred land for farmers. Plateaus are elevated like a tabletop- surfaces are varied.
Benefits of water
transportation, irragation
Consists of all the different areas on the earth where life can exist and the living organisms that live there
Biosphere
Lithosphere
The earth’s crust and the section of the upper mantle that moves with the tectonic plates are the lithosphere.
How much of the Earth's water is fresh water from ice caps and glaciers or underground?
2/3s of the worlds 3% of fresh water.
Nutrients that help farms produce large quantities of food.
Alluvium
Two ways how water or oceans specifically are beneficial to humans?
Distribute thermal energy from the sun, water for rain clouds, and guard against invasion. Fish and pearl producing clams. Salt
What country is the OSO landslide?
United States - Washington State